Written

statement of
number
of votes

Certificate

of deputy returning officer

Declaration of

4. Count the ayes and noes from the ballot papers not rejected and make a written statement of the number of votes given for or against the granting of licenses respectively and of the number of ballot papers rejected and not counted by him which statement shall be then signed by him and such. other persons authorised to be present as may desire to sign the same;

5. The deputy returning officer shall then certify under his own hand in full words on the voters' list the total number of persons who have voted at the polling place at which he is appointed and make up into separate packets

(a) The statement of votes given for or against the granting of licenses respectively and of the rejected ballot

papers;

(b) The used ballot papers which have not been objected to and which have been counted;

(c) The ballot papers which have been objected to but which have been counted;

(d) The rejected ballot papers;

(e) The declined and cancelled ballot papers;

(f) The voters' list;

which packets closed up and sealed with his own seal and with the seal of any persons present desiring to affix their seals thereto and marked on the outside with a memorandum designating their respective contents shall by the deputy returning officer be transmitted forthwith to the returning officer.

(9) At the time and place fixed for declaring the result of result of poll the poll the returning officer shall open the packets containing the statement of votes given for or against the granting of licenses respectively and there publicly declare the result.

Ballot boxes, etc.,

(10) As soon as possible after the result has been announced disposition of the ballot boxes, packets and returns shall be deposited in the office of the board.

Objections to proceedings

Defect of form or irregularity

(11) Objections to any act or proceeding under this section must be made in writing and filed in the office of the board within eight days after the ballot boxes, packets and returns are deposited in the said office; such objections shall be considered and adjudicated upon by the board at their next regular meeting; the decision of the board shall be final; and in the event of the objections being maintained and upon the payment of the sum of 3100 by the objector or objectors they shall have the power to call another poll to be taken on the question whether or not licenses shall be granted; in the event however of the said sum of $100 not being paid the poll objected to, even if the objections are sustained, shall remain valid to all intents and purposes and have full force and effect as if no objections had been found.

(12) Nothing in this section shall be construed as permitting of the proceedings had or papers filed or notices required any therein to be vitiated or set aside by reason of any mere want

or defect of form or any irregularity in the drawing up or execution of the same.

shall come

into force

(13) The decision of the three-fifths of the electors against when decision the granting of licenses as declared at the poll shall come into force in the then ensuing license year beginning on the first day of July and such prohibition shall continue in full force for such year and any future year until repealed; and each and all of the provisions of this section shall apply to the proceedings to be taken in reference to such appeal.

vote can be

(14) In case of any such vote being taken as provided in when new this section then no new vote other than that provided for in taken this section shall be taken for a period of three years thereafter.

out of general

(15) The expenses for the taking of such vote over and above Expenses to the sum of $100 provided to be paid under this section shall be be defrayed defrayed out of the general revenue fund of the Territories, revenue fund such expenses to be certified to by the board for the district in which the vote has been taken; in the event however of the expenses of such vote being less than the $100 deposited ast above, the balance thereof remaining after such expenses have been paid shall be returned to the parties depositing the same. No. 7 of 1897, s. 43.

PARTIAL REPEAL OF NORTH-WEST TERRITORIES ACT.

125. Sections 92 to 100 both inclusive of The North-West Sections 92 to 100 of N. W T. Territories Act, chapter 50 of The Revised Statutes of Canada Act repealed together with all amendments thereto in so far as they apply to the Territories comprising the several electoral divisions mentioned in the schedule to chapter 22 of the Act of the Parliament of Canada 54-55 Victoria intituled An Act to amend the Acts respecting the North-West Territories are hereby repealed except as to all that portion of Alberta north of a line drawn Exception as follows: Commencing at the point of intersection of the western boundary of Alberta by the line between townships numbered fifty-seven and fifty-eight thence east to the western boundary of range twenty-six west of the fourth meridian thence north along the western boundary of the said range twenty-six to the line between townships numbered sixty-four and sixty-five and thence east along the said line to the eastern boundary of Alberta, and except as to townships 57 and 58 in ranges 9 and 10 west of the fourth meridian in the Dominion lands system of survey; and it is declared that as to the said portions of the Territories the said sections of The North-West Territories Act remain in full force and effect. No. 7 of 1897, s. 123; No. 38 of 1897, s. 55; No. 40 of 1898, s. 12.

MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY.

Assembly

126. No member of the Legislative Assembly except he be Members of a licensee shall be a party to any bond to be given under this Legislative Ordinance nor shall he be a party to any petition under this Ordinance. No. 7 of 1897, s. 124.

SCHEDULE I.

FORM A.

(Section 28.)

To the License Commissioners :

The petition of the undersigned humbly sheweth :

That your petitioner makes application for a renewal of (1) a (2) license to sell intoxicating liquors

in the building occupied by your petitioner at

in the electoral district of described as (3)

and

Your petitioner hath deposited with the proper officer the sum of $10 the fee payable for such application and produces herewith receipt for same.

(4) [Your petitioner produces also the recommendation of at least ten out of the twenty nearest householders to the said also his own affidavit and the affidavit of two respectable neighbours to prove his qualification to obtain a license.]

And your petitioner prays that a license may be granted him accordingly.

(1) If a first application strike out the words in italics;

(2) Insert description of license as hotel or wholesale;

(3) Here give full description of premises;

(4) The words in brackets to be left out where form B not required.

FORM B.

(Sections 28, 29, 34, 37, 38, 40.)

We the undersigned hereby severally declare that

is personally known to us, that we are at least ten of the twenty householders nearest in a direct line to the

wherein the applicant intends to sell intoxicating liquers as specified in his petition; that we have read or heard read to us the whole of this recommendation before signing it; and we recommend the applicant as a fit and proper person to obtain a license to sell intoxicating liquors

to be occupied by the said applicant at in the electoral district of

in the

and we

consider it for the convenience of the public that a license should be granted to the said applicant.

Name.

Date of signature.

Distance in yards in a direct line from the proposed licensed premises.

I, the undersigned,

do certify that

all the persons whose names are appended to the within recommendation are personally known to me and have signed the same in my presence and the date upon which each person signed the said recommendation is directly set opposite the name of each person respectively.

That I am of the full age of twenty-one years.

That I have never been convicted of any criminal offence subject to imprisonment for five years or upwards.

applicant

That we are neighbours of

for a license to sell intoxicating liquors.

That he is personally known to us;

That he is of the full age of twenty-one years;

That he has never been convicted of any criminal offence

subject to imprisonment for five years or upwards to our knowledge; and

That he is a man of good moral character and temperate habits.

FORM OF BOND BY APPLICANT FOR AN HOTEL OR WHOLE

held and firmly bound unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her Heirs and Successors as follows, that is to say the said in the sum of five hundred dollars of good and lawful money of Canada the said in the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars of like good and lawful money and the said in the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars of like good and lawful money, for payment of which well and truly to be made we bind ourselves and each of us, our heirs, executors and administrators firmly by these presents.

Whereas the above bounden obtain a license to keep a

liquor in the

of

is about to

for the sale of The condition of

this obligation is therefore such that if the said pay all fines and penalties which he may be condemned to pay for any offence against any statute or other provision having the force of law now or hereafter to be in force relative to such license for the sale of liquor and does, performs and observes all the requirements thereof and conforms to all rules and regulations that are or may be established by competent authority in such behalf; then this obligation shall be null and void, otherwise it shall remain in full force, virtue and effect.

In witness whereof we have signed these presents with our hands and sealed them with our seals this

one thousand

day of

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